Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-05-27
CHAPTER Mi.


Slowly, and without the slightest appear
auce of haste or excitement, the three col
umuS crcpt on. When within about five
hundred yards of us the main or center col
umn halted ut the root of tongue of open
plain which ran up into The hill, 10 enable
the other two to circumyent our position,
which was shaped more or less in the form
of horseshoe, the points being toward the
town OF Loo, their object being, no doubt
that thrccfold assault should be delivered
simultaneously.
"Oh, for a Gatlingv' groaned Good. rs he
contemplated the Serried phalanNeS beneath
us. II would clear the plain in twenty min
utes"
I'VE have not got one, SO II is no use
ycarnng for II; but suppose you try shot
Qnaterman. See how near you can go to
that tall fellow who appears TO be in COM
mand. Two 10 one you miss him, and an even
sovereign, 10 be honestly paid ii ever we get
out of this, that you don't drop the ball with
III ten yards"
This piQued me, So loading the express
with solid ball, | waited TILL my friend
walked some ten yards out from his force in
ordCr to get q better view Of our position, ac-
cOmpanied by an orderly. and then, lying
down and resting the express upon rock
l covered him. The rifle, like all expresses
was only sighted 10 three hundred and fifty
yards, So 10 allow for the drop in trajectory
| took him halfway down the neck, which
ought calculated, TO find him in the chest
lie stood quite still and gave me every OPP
pOrtunity, but whether it was the excite
ment or the wind, or the fact of the man be-
ing long shot don't know, but this was
what happened. Getting dead on as
thought \ fine sight, pressed, and when
the pun of smoke had cleared away, l, TO
my disgust, saw my man standing unframed
whilst his orderly, who was at least three
PAGES 10 the left, was stretched upon the
ground apparently dead. Turning swiftly,
the officer had aimed ut began TO run to-
ward his force, in evident alarm.
Bravo, QuatermauW sung out Good
you've frightened him."
This made ME very angry, for il possible
to avoid II, hate TO miss in public. When
one can only do one thing we'll one likes to
keep up ones reputation in that thing
Moved quite out of myself at my failure,
did nash thing. Rapidly covering the gem
eral rs he ran, let drive with the second
barrel The poor man threw up his arms,
and he tell forward on his face This time
| had made no mistake: and say itas
proof of how little we think of Others VIII,
our own pride or reputation is in questlo
| was brute enough TO feel delighted at
sight
The regiment who had S,p' the
chccrc,i wildly at the cNhibitio rw
mans magic, which they took rs an omen of
success, while the force to which the general
had belonged-which, indeed, rs We after
ward ascertained, he had eommanded-began
TO fall back in confusion. Sir Henry and
Good now took up their rifles and began to
tire, the latter industriously proving the
dense mass before him with a Winchester
repeater, and l also had another shot or two
with the result that so far as we could
judge, we put some eight or ten men hors dc
combat before they got out of range.
just as we stopped firing there came an
ominous roar from our far right then
similar roar from our left. The two other
divisions We're engaging us.
AT the sound the mass of men before us
opened out little, and came on toward the
hill up the spit OF bare grassland at slow